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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED220687 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Economic Status of Women. Hearing before the Joint
Economic Committee. Congress of the United States, Ninety
Seventh Congress, Second Session.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1982
NOTE: 140 p.
ABSTRACT: This document is a transcript of a Congressional
hearing on the economic status of women held by the Joint
Economic Committee on February 3, 1982. Witnesses who
testified at the hearing included Representatives Reuss,
Richmond, Heckler, Wylie and Schroeder, Senators Jepsen and
Kassenbaum, and a number of women active in women's equality
programs. Witnesses focused their discussions largely on two
of the problems that confront women today: the inequities
faced by women in the labor market and the inability of low
income women to escape poverty and dependence on welfare.
Witnesses testified that women's progress in the labor
market has been slow, with more than two-thirds of women
earning less than $10,000 per year; even for college
graduate women, the median was only about 60 percent of the
median wage for men. These gaps cannot be explained by
differences in skills or productivity, said the witnesses,
but have much more to do with occupational patterns, the
concentration of women in clerical service and other low
wage jobs and the inability of women living in poverty to
find regular employment, even at low wages. Witnesses at the
hearing also protested the Reagan administration's proposals
for cuts in government programs, which would hit hardest at
women and their children: for example, cuts in welfare
benefits for women who cannot find any kind of work, and
cuts in day-care funding that would make it impossible for
mothers of children to work. Reforms were also proposed in
the Internal Revenue code to change the income tax filing
requirements relating to returns of married couples, and a
women's bill of rights was introduced. (KC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adults-; Affirmative-Action; Employer
Attitudes; Employment-Opportunities; Employment-Programs;
Federal-Aid; Hearings-; Males-; Poverty-; Sex-Bias; Sex
Fairness; Unemployment-; Wages-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Economic-Status; *Employed-Women; *Equal
Opportunities-Jobs; *Females-; *Sex-Discrimination
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